Deadline: 5-Oct-23
The Arts Council is seeking applications for the Partnership Funding to invest in and support the essential infrastructure required to sustain and develop the arts in Ireland.
Recipients of Partnership Funding must play a critical part in delivering the policy priorities of Making Great Art Work, the Arts Council’s ten-year strategy.
Aims and Objectives
In offering Partnership Funding, the Arts Council wishes to ensure:
- The delivery of excellent art and/or excellent arts activities, events and services
- A supportive environment for the development of the arts
- Excellent professional-development opportunities for practising artists and/or arts professionals
- That more people will enjoy high-quality arts experiences, including more diverse audiences
- Increased engagement by the public with the arts, in particular by new communities, people for whom access to the arts is difficult, and by young people and children
- Standards of excellence in governance and management in the arts.
Activities
Partnership Funding is intended to support a number of strategic actions and/or strategic arts-activity costs of local authority and statutory organisations only.
- Access costs for artists or participants with disabilities
- In addition to the maximum amount permitted, the Arts Council will also consider access costs specifically relating to the making of work by artists or participants with disabilities and/or non-capital public-access costs (e.g. audio description, interpretation) in cases where your proposal has a public outcome.
- The Arts Council takes the definition of disability from the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which states: ‘Persons with disabilities include those who have long-term physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairments which, in interaction with various barriers, may hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others.’
- If you wish to apply for access costs, please upload the following information with your application:
- A short document outlining what your additional access costs are
- An amount for access costs in the expenditure section of your application-form budget. This figure should also be included in the total amount you request.
What is an access cost?
- Access costs for artists or participants with disabilities cover any requirements you may have in order to remove barriers that might stop you from completing your proposal. This may include, for example, costs towards additional time needed to complete an element of your proposal or additional assistance required to deliver your proposed activity.
Eligibility Criteria
- Partnership Funding is open to local authority and statutory organisations only.
- Organisations can make only one submission each year for Partnership Funding.
- To be eligible for application, your organisation must:
- Be a local authority or statutory organisation.
For more information, visit The Arts Council.